BESC 3010 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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BESC 3010 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers


Question: In a sample of women, the number of children that each woman
has is an example of which level of measurement?
Interval
Nominal
Ordinal
Ratio


Ans: ratio


Question: Military ranks are an example of what level of measurement?
Nominal
Ratio
Ordinal
Interval


Ans: ordinal


Question: Gender is an example of what level of measurement?
Interval
Nominal
Ratio
Ordinal

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Ans: nominal


Question: The visual difference between bar graphs and histograms is that in
(1) the bars touch each other and in (2) the bars do not.
(1) Bar graphs, (2) histograms
(1) Normal distributions, (2) highly skewed distributions
(1) Histograms, (2) bar graphs
(1) Highly skewed distributions, (2) normal distributions


Ans: (1) histograms, (2) bar graphs


Question: Which of the following is not true about the normal distrubition?
Skewness = 0
Kurtosis = 1
Mode = median
Mean = mode


Ans: kurtosis=1


Question: In a normal distribution, it is very unusual to find scores outside of
what range of z-scores?
0 and 5
-3 and 3
-1 and 1
0 and 10


Ans: -3 and 3

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Question: Three measures of variability are:
Mean, median, mode
Range, variance, standard deviation
z-score, effect size, independent variable
Normal, bimodal, unimodal


Ans: range, variance, standard deviation


Question: Which option is the mean of the numbers below?
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4
4.5
8
10


Ans: 4


Question: Which option is the median of the numbers below?
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5
3
4
3.5


Ans: 4


Question: Which option is the mode of the numbers below?
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